Coming June 20, 2023
Three generations of family secrets and midlife crises all set the stage for one dream to come true.

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Three generations of family secrets and midlife crises all set the stage for one dream to come true.
A week before Christmas 1951, Dr. Ralph Russell, a successful San Diego surgeon, risked everything to voluntarily enter a locked federal drug-treatment facility, known as a “narcotic farm.”
Sixty-five years later, his granddaughter Debbie suffers a debilitating crisis of identity when her father, (Dr. Russell’s oldest son) always her biggest fan, is accepted into hospice.
Debbie's investigation into her paternal lineage reveals family secrets and ignites her mother's volatile outbursts, propelling her into therapy.
When therapy fails her, the grandfather Debbie never knew saves her, and she collaborates with her dying father one last time to make her biggest dream come true.
Crossing Fifty-One pulls back the curtain on the internal struggles of midlife and provides a blueprint for redefining one's self beyond the constraints of addiction and dysfunctional family dynamics.
How do we value a life? How do family patterns and relationships influence our sense of self-worth? How do we let go of past pain and create the future of our dreams? In this poignant family saga, Debbie Russell describes her own midlife crisis as well as her grandfather’s - a meticulously documented four months stay in a locked federal drug rehab program.
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